The dimensional infection incident related to Zuo Jing made Chen Ming feel a similar fear as before when he first encountered it.

But after calming down, he suddenly realized that the fear did not simply bring him fear.

While this fear was accompanying him, he also inexplicably felt a hint of...excitement.

The excitement of being on the edge of danger made Chen Ming feel indescribable.

He seemed to be expecting something to happen.

So after returning to the branch, Chen Ming would do his serious work honestly as soon as possible.

I just want to give myself some time to calm down and take time to think after I calm down.

As a result, Chen Ming confirmed that this feeling was not an illusion, but his true feeling.

He seeks stability when he is in danger, but he does want to seek some excitement when he is stable.

Chen Ming felt a little conflicted.

What he was pursuing at the beginning was clearly a stable life, but in the process of constantly encountering and resolving dangers, he began to miss the feeling of being in danger.

As a result, the stable life he was leading now, compared to what he used to have, had become a bit boring to him.

Moreover, while Chen Ming was thinking, he discovered that there were actually some signs of his situation before.

For example, when the first temporary base was developed.

After the initial novelty wears off, all that remains is to look at the various survey data that bring about brilliant returns every day.

Chen Ming didn't even need to analyze the data himself. Huihuang had already processed all the valuable data when he took it out, and all the necessary things had been done. There was no need for him to do anything at all.

Apart from the general direction of regulation, just looking at these data made Chen Ming feel a little nauseous.

Only when he helped some afterglow individuals who were in dangerous situations to escape danger and repair their spacecraft could he barely feel a little bit of interest.

That's why Chen Ming took the initiative to develop the fake body technology and let the fake body run to the 14th Legion.

And the Fourteenth Legion's experience here is indeed more interesting than on the almost unchanging pioneering path.

Competing with nature, competing with the environment, and competing with people. Competing with people is definitely more interesting.

But at the same time, after the initial novelty wore off, the Fourteenth Legion's branch gradually began to become boring.

Although there are indeed some people targeting him and Baiquan, the means they can use are basically ordinary means, which are reasonable means at the political level, or simply some insignificant means.

Only the time with Hu Yi really made Chen Ming feel his adrenaline was stimulated and he became excited.

Although Chen Ming did not pay attention to his emotions when fighting with Hu Yi before, his attention was all focused on the surrounding volcanoes and using his mental power to control the Purgatory Core to fight against Hu Yi.

But looking back now, Chen Ming found that he was indeed excited about this matter.

Of course, there was also the time when the Black Mist Psychic sneaked into the spaceship and attempted an assassination.

That time was an exception. After all, it was the first time that Zuo Jing took out a psychic, and it was also a rare opportunity for Chen Ming to confront a psychic head-on.

Speaking of a head-on confrontation with a psychic, Chen Ming suddenly remembered the last time he faced a psychic, which was when he fought against Yan Xiong.

He actually played in person at that time, not using a fake body.

The excitement he felt at that time is still unforgettable for Chen Ming when he recalls it now.

Of course, Chen Ming is not the kind of person who would get carried away by this kind of feeling. He is always calm when doing things.

After all, if you really want to talk about boredom, the fake body has classes with Baiquan every day, and the real body still has to stare at the large amount of data transmitted back by Huihuang every day, and has to spend almost the entire day learning cruiser-level technology, which is even more boring, but he still persisted.

Chen Ming simply prefers the approach that he is more comfortable with when it comes to things that he can choose from.

And at this moment, the dimensional infection may lead to unpredictable serious consequences, and these are serious consequences that no one can escape.

Chen Ming felt that he could get involved.

It wasn't to satisfy his idea of ​​making himself suffer because his life was too good, it was simply to find something to do.

Although there are other things that can distract him to a certain extent, such as the reconnaissance mission that Baiquan had promised before and the upcoming war.

But a reconnaissance mission can only be completed in a few days at most, and the war will still take time to come.

Even half a year might be considered short before the war officially begins, and it will take even longer before the real war begins.

Moreover, the recent death of Lou Wei forced Bai Quan to return to the headquarters, which indirectly meant that the reconnaissance mission that Chen Ming could participate in would have to wait until Bai Quan returned.

So after finishing all the tasks that Chen Ming left for him to do so that he could calm down and reflect on himself, his mind was instantly filled with this matter again.

Under the influence of these factors, all Chen Ming can do now is to participate in this dimensional infection incident involving Zuo Jing.

Of course, Chen Ming still values ​​his life very much.

While it's fun to chase the thrill, death is also a truly terrifying thing.

The danger level of dimensional infection is definitely one of the top two terrifying things Chen Ming has ever experienced.

The first time was when Chen Ming was almost killed by Yuhui’s tachyon spear in the space arm of the pirate space station.

So even if Chen Ming has this idea now, he will not do anything personally.

However, if this matter is completely handed over to other people to investigate, the efficiency, time, degree of danger, and whether the information can be passed back in time are all uncertain.

He must personally participate in it by choosing an indirect way.

He only had one choice left.

Prosthesis.

It just so happens that the president has clearly stated before that dimensional infection marks the bodies that have experienced dimensional infection events.

This body determines the location of another dimension and establishes a connection with another dimension, rather than a prosthesis with the same or different genes.

So practically speaking, as long as Chen Ming is not running around with his real body, even his fake body in the 14th Legion can participate.

But this matter is related to Zuo Jing.

Chen knew very well that although Zuo Jing wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible, he would never take the initiative to cause trouble for him unless he had the chance, especially after losing a psychic.

Therefore, the involvement of prostheses may even have a counterproductive effect.

Moreover, the prosthesis is currently restricted by the rules of the Fourteenth Legion. It cannot move around and needs to stay in the Fourteenth Legion.

Therefore, both the body and the prosthesis are limited in a sense.

But Chen Ming has another choice.

An Wuping, another hybrid creature of a prosthesis and a Zerg special combat unit that he had created some time ago and sent to the empire.

An Wuping can also be considered one of his fake bodies.

It has genes and flesh and blood that are imitated from the Queen of Insects, as well as the ferocious creature hidden beneath the flesh and blood.

It is not impossible for such a guy to participate in this matter alone with Chen Ming secretly providing help behind the scenes.

An Wuping happened to appear everywhere in the empire, which could be considered as part of Chen Ming's plan.

But speaking of An Wuping, Chen Ming suddenly thought of something.

An Wuping is the product of the combination of a prosthesis created by the Queen and a Zerg special combat unit.

The process of making a prosthesis seems to have certain similarities with the process of cloning.

Moreover, there is actually no essential difference between the fake body created and the cloned person created.

However, the cloning process will lead to dimensional infection, and the process of the Queen of Worms making prostheses has never happened before.

Chen Ming had missed this point before, and it was not until now that he suddenly realized the problem, so he immediately looked over at the Queen Insect.

Then he suddenly realized that not only the process of manufacturing the prosthesis, but also the process of the Queen's current breeding of new Zerg individuals actually had some problems.

Chen Ming remembered that in the past, queen insects would lay eggs first when breeding new insect individuals.

After the eggs hatch into larvae, the queen will stuff a relatively weak part of her own consciousness in the Zerg hive mind into the larvae, which will develop with the larvae and expand the size of the entire population.

Before the eggs hatch, there should be no ordinary Zerg consciousness inside, and even within a certain period of time after the larvae hatch, the larvae themselves should also be a simple Zerg body.

Why didn't the beings from another dimension target the Queen of Worms?

This question just popped up in Chen Ming's mind.

After devouring Chen Ming's condensed spiritual energy source, the Queen Insect, whose mental power had been completely linked to Chen Ming's, suddenly emitted a consciousness and told Chen Ming the reason.

The queen will fill her own consciousness into the eggs before hatching. The queen's consciousness will not be extracted until the new Zerg consciousness enters the hatched larvae and the fragile consciousness adapts to the larvae's body.

Therefore, there has never been a moment when consciousness does not exist in the body of an individual Zerg.

And when Chen Ming continued to ask the Queen of Insects the reason.

Chen Ming was somewhat surprised by the Queen Insect's answer, but after thinking about it carefully, it was indeed reasonable.

It was instinct, instinct telling the Queen Insect that it needed to do this.

Chen Ming continued to ask the Queen Insect whether she had any memories related to this instinct.

The Queen of Insects expressed a decisive denial.

That's a bit interesting.

During the process of hatching eggs into larvae, if we ignore dimensional infection and only look at other environmental conditions, there is absolutely no need for the queen consciousness to remain in the eggs and larvae to protect them.

Even now.

After devouring the evolved psychic fungi, the queen insect's reproduction method has changed from simple oviparous to oviparous plus the reproduction methods of various fungi.

And corresponding to the changes in breeding methods, the technology of biological construction larvae hatching pools has almost matured and can automatically hatch larvae.

But Chen Ming discovered that even at this time, when the biological buildings were hatching new Zerg larvae, the Queen would still use her consciousness to control the biological buildings and instill part of her consciousness into these eggs and larvae.

Ensure that the individuals cultivated by the Queen Insect do not have any loss of consciousness during the entire process.

The same goes for the growth process of the prosthesis.

The Queen Insect filled the prosthesis with her own consciousness. When Chen Ming's cooperation in the experiment was needed, her consciousness would be extracted and Chen Ming's consciousness would enter the prosthesis.

Even though it was a prosthesis, there was still a certain consciousness of the Queen of Worms inside the body before Chen Ming took control of it.

Chen Ming tried to persuade the Queen Insect not to do this and not to use her consciousness to protect the eggs.

But then, the Queen Insect showed an extremely resistant response for the first time, but in the end it agreed to Chen Ming's request.

Of course Chen Ming did not do that and immediately withdrew his request.

Through what he had just seen, he basically understood what the Queen Insect's instinct was.

If we can trace the history of the Queen Thorn Zerg, then we can basically determine how many years ago the dimensional infection occurred based on the history of the Thorn Zerg species.

It’s a pity that we can’t get more information from the Queen of Insects for the time being.

The memory of the Zerg will be lost in the reproduction of the Queen Zerg from generation to generation. Chen Ming's memory of the Queen Zerg only contains part of the memory of one generation of the Queen Zerg, not all of it.

So if Chen Ming wanted to know more, he had to start with the first generation of Queen Insects.

But the first generation of queen insects had long disappeared, and the probability of encountering one was lower than finding a needle in a haystack.

Let’s just ignore it for now.

At least it can be confirmed that the Queen has never encountered similar problems such as dimensional infection during the prosthetic experiments and the hatching of new Zerg.

And Chen Ming doesn't have to worry about the Zerg being affected by him, a witness of the dimensional infection, causing the dimensional infection to take effect on the Zerg Queen.

Chen Ming recorded the Queen's instinct to use her consciousness to protect the unconscious Zerg bodies during the cultivation process.

Then he turned his attention back to An Wuping, who had arrived in the empire not long ago.

An Wuping's mission was determined from the very beginning.

It is to help Chen Ming do some things that he cannot do by himself or that are inconvenient to do by himself.

For example, killing someone from the hostile faction of the 14th Legion whom he disliked.

For example, helping Chen Ming run around several star fields, looking for traces of Zuo Jing.

Previously, Chen Ming had reserved the location of the Zuojing stronghold from the lieutenant general's illegitimate son in the two industrial colonies that now belonged to him for An Wuping.

Chen Ming always planned to let An Wuping handle matters related to Zuo Jing, so the current matter was the same.

However, it would be difficult for An Wuping to go directly to Cai Mo-3. A person who appeared out of nowhere might even be targeted by his own people who were unaware of the situation.

Chen Ming didn't want the president or the people arranged by the empire to target An Wuping, but he also didn't want to expose the fact that An Wuping was related to him.

So he had to make arrangements step by step and extend An Wuping's action logic to the Caimo Star Region.

And everyone must be made clear that An Wuping is a friend, not an enemy.

This requires some preparation.

The best foreshadowing is Zuo Jing's corpse.

The location of the Zuojing stronghold, which Chen Ming deliberately concealed, was the route that An Wuping would have to take next.

He has been personally controlling and arranging everything for An Wuping since the day it was manufactured.

When An Wuping was first created, he directly sent An Wuping to the vicinity of the empire in a spaceship.

Before reaching the territory of the empire, An Wuping was stuffed into a large escape capsule at a distance that only activated the function of sending a distress signal but did not activate the cryogenic hibernation function, and was thrown into outer space.

Anyway, An Wuping's physical strength is enough for him to enter the universe in the flesh, so there won't be any problem no matter what he does.

Chen Ming also confirmed in advance through information from Old Wu that there was an active pirate fleet in the nearby star field.

The distress signal naturally fell into the eyes of this pirate fleet.

Then Chen Ming directly controlled An Wuping to break into the flagship of the pirate fleet.

He killed almost all the pirates on the ship in his human form wearing a military-grade power armor that could fit into a large cryogenic hibernation chamber.

Only some pirates who surrendered, had no bounty on them, and could still fly spaceships were left.

After relying on command technology to operate the strongest flagship and destroy nearly half of the remaining pirate ships, the remaining pirates all chose to surrender.

An Wuping completely seized the command of the pirate fleet and led the crippled fleet to the nearest pirate space station.

Since he has to enter human society, Chen Ming has to be careful when playing the role of An Wuping in front of most people.

Moreover, in order to prevent An Wuping from being suspected in the future, Chen Ming must plan everything for An Wuping in advance starting from the first step into the empire.

For example, background story, personality and character setting.

The background story is easy to solve. There are many unregistered residents in the empire anyway, so the background story is just about right.

It would be better if the character's personality is a little dark and crazy, and it would be better if he has some mental illness.

For example, Chen Ming recently learned about the diseases suffered by the animals that were affected by the mental pulses on Ruimu.

Violence disorder.

Those animals were suffering from acute rage, while An Wuping was suffering from a chronic disease.

Of course, it could also be random rage, depending on what Chen Ming needs.

This kind of mental illness just fits An Wuping's character, who suddenly grows to three meters in height and turns into a ferocious monster.

Anyway, An Wuping's ability to transform will be exposed sooner or later. Since he can transform back, it can be explained as psychic power at that time.

Therefore, these matters were designed in advance, so that if someone investigates Chen Ming's background in the future like they did before, there will be clues to follow.

Moreover, this kind of character design also makes it convenient for Chen Ming to have An Wuping appear nearby when he wants to kill someone in the future, and then suddenly go crazy and kill that person.

Later, after An Wuping led the pirate fleet to the nearby pirate space station, Chen Ming asked An Wuping to get off the spaceship wearing power armor.

He is shown to be in possession of a worn-down military power armor suit, which may have been stolen, captured, or originally belonged to him.

Therefore, the rumors spread by the pirates later were not outrageous. At least it was not a case of one person breaking into a mule and robbing pirates with just his physical body, and no one had any unnecessary suspicion of An Wuping.

The pirates who were frightened by the fact that An Wuping, wearing a power armor, broke into the spaceship alone and killed all those who dared to resist and the management also gave up the idea of ​​stealing this good thing for ordinary pirates to a certain extent.

In short, An Wuping, under the guidance of several captured pirates, found the local tyrant and obtained a fake identity.

He then sold all the spaceships and dismissed all the pirates.

Subsequently, a second-hand frigate that had been extensively modified and capable of being operated by one person was purchased from this pirate space station.

At the same time, he also bought a second-hand robot that had also been roughly modified and some supplies.

The remaining money was used by Chen Ming to eat and drink lavishly on the pirate space station.

One reason is to expand An Wuping's character and leave more traces in this pirate space station.

Another reason is that Chen Ming really wants to do this.

Of course, Chen Ming was not as indulgent as Lao Wu. He still had a bottom line.

After spending almost all the money, Chen Ming controlled An Wuping and the spaceship to leave the pirate galaxy in the edge star field.

After killing a pirate fleet that wanted to cause trouble, Chen Ming took about half of the bodies of the pirates who had been frozen in the cold storage of the spaceship and had a bounty on their heads, and went to the local government to collect the bounty.

Although the bounties for these pirates were not high, the receipt of these bounties also provided a layer of government protection for this fake identity.

This allows An Wuping to stay in some colonies for a long time and not be treated as a pure illegal resident.

Afterwards, Chen Ming continued to use this identity to travel to an ordinary comprehensive colony in a nearby galaxy.

It took him a day to find a place to stay, and then he kept an eye on the government department for a whole day, and finally targeted a person from the government department stationed in this galaxy.

After spending some time knocking the person unconscious, Chen Ming used the Queen Insect's ability to disguise An Wuping as a member of this government, stole his identity, and infiltrated the government department.

With this identity, he hacked into the local government system and found the local people's identity system database.

Chen Ming had never been exposed to this system before, and only now did he know that the identity system database was divided into two.

One is a database of local people from birth to death, and the other is a database of foreign population.

The foreign population database is also divided into two.

One is the kind that can be connected through a database and has relevant records such as birth certificates in other colonies, which means that people with this certificate will not be illegal residents or have fake identities.

As for those who cannot be verified through database connection in other regions, there is a high probability that they are fake identities, or at least they are problematic people.

An Wuping's identity is in this database.

(End of this chapter)